Where are we going to be in two centuries? Wk 2A

The map of a country, in some ways, represents its history, development and culture, or as the book "imegenes de la diversidad" puts it: "El mapa de un paìs es la casa que resguarda la historia de quienes la han habitado desde siempre" (pg 13). As time passes by, the geographic frontiers of a country change and in the specific case of Colombia, these changes have made it`s shape smaller. What changes the geography of a country, besides the biologic catastrophes, are the political decisions its goverment makes.

Between the XVI and the XXI centuries the colombian government, obvlious to the cultural value of the countrie`s land, sold it, with little dignity, to forgeing countries. Given the lack of interest of the Colombian government during this time, the coasts of Colombia were the target of those country`s that wished to exile their prisoners or free their slaves.

And so, after all these time, only today we (Colombians) decided to complain about how our former governments gave away our land so easily, but anyway, we are allowing our actual government to do the exact same thing that was done to our land in the past two centuries specially, with the satelite space that belongs to our country, so, I may ask, what have we learned from our mistakes? and where are we going to be in another two centuries?